The unexpected perks were things like this. When I first became a star I had never learnt to drive so I hired a chauffeur to drive me around. But later I moved with my family to Los Angeles, and everybody drives there so I had to take a test. Before I took it, a man behind a desk informed me, in a prepared speech he had probably given many times, "The person who will perform your test is sitting outside in the car. You will speak to him only to say, 'Good morning.' There will be no normal conversation. He will give you instructions, you will listen and respond. There will be no personal remarks whatsoever."
I said, "Yes, Officer, I understand." I went outside and got into the car.
The guy looked at me and he said, "I loved you in The Man Who Would Be King. You're going to have to be shit to not pass this test." So at the age of fifty that was how I got my first driver's licence.
Michael Caine "Blowing the Bloody Doors Off" (2018)
